There is no tolerance for disbelief in the 'Holocaust' story of 6 million gassed 'Jews' from this Judaic fellow whose disbelief in the incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is tolerated quite well from his Catholic high school audience.

How long do these oppressive 'victims' expect this outrageous hypocrisy to be tolerated?

Despite the shutdown, students get a fuller Holocaust experience

JEFF GAMMAGE, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

October 17, 2013

The government shutdown ruined plans of Lancaster high school students to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, but a Philadelphia group jumped in Wednesday to offer a vivid firsthand lesson of the 20th century's great horror.

"They called us and their first question was, 'Are you open?' " said Phil Holtje, program director of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Northeast Philadelphia.

The center was open. But the theater and bigger rooms at the Klein Jewish Community Center, where the museum is housed, were already booked.

Museum president Chuck Feldman quickly contacted Ruth Hartz, who survived the Holocaust as a child, and she reached out to her synagogue, Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park.

Shortly after 11 a.m., two tour buses rolled to a stop outside the synagogue, and seniors from Lancaster Catholic High School filed into the soaring, stained-glass sanctuary.

"It was today or nothing," said English teacher Leslie Laird, who helped organize the Washington trip as part of her classes' studies of the Holocaust.

The partial government shutdown - which after 16 days appeared poised to end Wednesday night - closed not just the Smithsonian museums on the Mall but others that depend on federal funding, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The museum ranks among America's most popular, hosting more than 34 million visitors since it opened in 1996. Its vast holdings include the technical, such as a detailed model of the gas chambers and crematoria at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and the emotional, including a pile of 4,000 shoes that the Nazis took from their victims.

The local Holocaust Museum houses fewer artifacts in a smaller space. But on Wednesday it, too, offered something special.

At the front of the sanctuary, slowed by age but strong of spirit, stood Ernie Gross, 84, who survived both Auschwitz and the Dachau concentration camp, and Don Greenbaum, 88, who as a GI helped liberate Dachau in April 1945.

"Two heroes," Feldman said.

And two men challenged by their task: To explain the enormity of the World War II genocide to a generation that hardly recognizes the name Eisenhower.

Some students yawned as the men spoke. Others closed their eyes. Most sat rapt, particularly when Gross began rummaging through a bag he had set in front of him.

What was inside? Several items.

A cup, which served as Gross' drinking glass and dinner plate in the camps. He carried it on a string around his neck, a possession too valuable to lose.

Next emerged a loaf of bread. Too small to feed one man, it was divided among eight in the camps, where every morsel could mean the difference between life and death.

Gross told how he watched a father and son quarrel over who deserved the minutely larger slice, the younger man insisting on keeping it, snapping, "I'm just as hungry as you."

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Jews suffer more than most.In 2002 over 2000 Muslims lost their lives in riots in the Indian state of Gujarat. Then ( as now) the Chief Minister of that state was Narendra Modi who is the hot favorite to become India's next Prime Minister following the elections in early 2014. He has now been invited to speak in Britain:British MPs invite Narendra Modi to speak at Westminster - Telegraph

In the memory of 2000 men women and children killed in the state led genocide of Gujarat in 2002 and 200,000 who lost their homes and dignity.Shame

I should be ashamedof raising issues that divide-they say.

But how can I forgetthose they killedmutilated and those they leftstill hiding their nakedness.

I will shout from the rooftopsmake memorials of poemsI will draw from the eyesof the killersnot blood, but tears.Run Amina Run

The dead are never at rest, especially at nightSometimes, I hear him moving upstairsbolting doors, moving furnitureagainst the doors to make a barricadeI cannot sleepOther days there is a heavy silenceOrange silence with only a crackling soundand an acrid smellSuddenly he cries out aloud

Run Amina Run!

I tell him that the crowds have goneyears agoI no longer hurtand he is deadbut he keeps screamingThey are coming !